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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 07/10/2026

Trump announced $100M to train U.S. citizen scientists only. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... These are not new funds. NSF underspent its education funds by $100M this past year. Of course, it pales in comparison to the $560M lost due to terminated NSF education grants: grantwitness.org/nsf 🧪

Trump Makes $100 Million Push to Train American Scientists

By Liam Knox
October 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC

The Trump administration is injecting more than $100 million into education programs for American researchers in STEM fields, as federal policies stanch the flow of foreign scientists to the US and policymakers focus on an AI arms race with China.
The initiative, which President Donald Trump is set to announce at a White House summit on Thursday, aims to increase the number of highly trained scientific researchers who are American citizens through fellowships for PhD programs in science and engineering disciplines, according to a White House official.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As I’ve asked many times now, what constituencies does a university president represent? Because too often, the answer seems to not include anyone who works or studies at the university, and that seems like a problem.

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Innovation ys not just tech. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had a conversation about AI doomerism with a buddy and, as the child of a hydraulic engineer, let me tell you why I don't believe AI will kill off humanity and take over the world: everything leaks as long as that shit is water-cooled, it needs a human with a wrench to keep it running

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5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The tour guide I had at Pompeii that went ‘ yea so the volcano could technically erupt at any time and kill us including during tour. And if that happens , allora’ and shrugged. King

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

Fifteen journalists led the Arday coverage. Between them they wrote 93 articles about a Black Cambridge professor accused of copying other people's work. Not one of them wrote a sentence about a Cambridge academic under police investigation for how a political party was funded.

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D @world-capitals.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

YES I’ve had a couple drinks and am texting my long distance friend about her husband and children and how they’re doing! I’m getting baby pics! Hell yeah

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D @world-capitals.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I love the federal government. Just found out my favorite quirky, jolly HR guy started at our institution as a janitor and worked his way up to a high-grade office job over 2 decades, spending time at multiple subunits along the way. So cool!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

DC is a deeply eerie place right now. phalanxes of feds and national guard everywhere you look, trump's ugly fucking mug staring down at you from every other federal building. my hometown is maybe the loveliest walking-around-type city in the country and they are trying like hell to ruin it

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

politics is not monocausal etc etc, but we def get a bit too clever by half trying to explain why people vote for right wing parties, especially in europe imo. 'they're against immigration so they vote for the most anti-immigrant party' explains a whole lot.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Look if you've got a better way to run a country than "putting an illiterate octogenarian bigot on TV every few days to free associate and complain, and then everyone tries to figure out if it means we're about to start a war or not" I'd love to hear it. But the constitution says this is it.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A man and woman embrace as ICE and FHP detain her during an immigration stop in Fort Myers this morning.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Republicans have made their election strategy very clear: 1) Islamophobia 2) transphobia 3) blatant lying 4) cheating / suppressing votes 5) throwing endless dark + corporate $$ at all the above When I see Democrats HELPING them on 1 & 2 - or barely mentioning the rest - I want to break bones.

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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Services I provide for my cats

Chicago streets and sanitation truck with the first s missing so it says treets and sanitation

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My love for erhu 二胡 and my love for Dolly brought together in Dolly Parton’s “The Cruel War," accompanied by Ming Wang on erhu, from her 2005 album Those Were the Days. ht Julian Gewirtz youtu.be/Bt_vgabGKVs?...

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Dolly Parton sings, Dr. Ming Wang plays Er Hu

YouTube video by Dr. Ming Wang

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Me, getting ready for the 2026-27 academic year:

Screencap from the MERL video below showing Ollie Douglas seated in a seminar room with his arms spread wide. Caption: “This seminar room is bussing.”

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D @world-capitals.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This was absolutely delightful and the only coverage worth consuming after the museum mess Grand Prix! Sucks that me and my colleagues have been climbing around barriers for weeks and can’t get to the office, but at least we got some real ones who went inside!

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Hatloween @talkinghat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I shouldn’t have to do paperwork outside of job

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Are things bad and unjust for too many people when trump isn’t in power? Yes of course. This is different

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D @world-capitals.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Sighted in my Airbnb: what Americans call a “tea selection”

A drawer with crappy iced tea bags and a fruit tea sampler, making the author yearn for a country that actually likes to make hot tea

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

TIL in no less a venue than the New York Times: if you "conduct in-depth interviews", those interviews are not "data"

Mixing research and justice

Sociology is sprawling. It includes ethnographers who conduct in-depth interviews, data-driven researchers and those who do both. Many sociologists study crime, demography, religion and other topics that do not generally irk conservatives. Sociology has also become a home for scholars who examine sexism, racism, policing, immigration and other politically charged topics.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Workers are setting up tires and paving the roads for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix IndyCar race in downtown DC. Unfortunately, it seems as though downtown will not be ADA (or stroller) accessible this week.

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You all should be ashamed of yourselves! You’re setting back women’s equality by 100 years by suggesting it’s weird for a professional woman to write love letters to her boss or run behind his golf cart or get saved from the decoy plane over the secretary of state. Typical lib hypocrites!

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

taking my life into my hands trying to simply go north-south

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 08/08/2026

It is sobering to contemplate that in fewer than five years, the directives of about half a dozen very wealthy men have effectively ruined the most effective research tools ever devised by human civilization.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 15/08/2026

ICYMI, over the past two weeks, English-language Wikipedia editors have engaged in a successful effort to change the first paragraph of the Republican Party entry to reflect its current status as a "neo-nationalist" political party. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...

en.wikipedia.org

Republican Party (United States) - Wikipedia

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/08/2026

it's genuinely bewildering to have spent a decade yelling about what a bad dude Elon Musk was, only for him to end up doubling the Holocaust's death count like, he just went out and made his earlier crimes look like nothing, and he's still walking free

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Whatever else was wrong with the United States, we truly did have a higher education system that was the envy of the world. Now we’re lighting it on fire because some people are bored and racist.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

my colleagues in the natural sciences (and mathier social sciences) can correct me if I'm wrong but my impression is that if you produce a result of field defining significance your chances of getting a tenure track job are still pretty good

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Mommy party has to be responsible and daddy party doesn’t

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

thenation.com

One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In an ideal postcolonial future MD would just get rid of all of the colonial vestiges and have a flag bearing a crab with laser eyes, advancing menacingly towards their enemy just beyond the flag

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D @world-capitals.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Simply cannot imagine me and any cis or trans peers going through this during vulnerable preteen years as a prerequisite for the sports teams our school forced us to join even though we’d have rather just done yoga or dance or whatever. Also can’t imagine how creeped out my parents would have been.

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

god just sort of zoning out and making 20,000 different kinds of ants

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𝒰𝓁𝓉𝒾𝓂𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝐻𝓊𝓈𝓉𝓁𝑒𝓇 @latenightnelly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is what every one of these conversations sounds like

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

One of the worst things about the Senate’s attempted Fauci show trial is how the supposed evidence against him is early in COVID he considered multiple hypotheses, then increasingly ruled some unlikely as evidence came in. The objection is he did science. Fundamentally that is what’s under attack.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/07/2026

This is not about the OP, but honestly, I think the constant harping on "no do THIS not THAT as a consumer" is designed to make you give up on climate. This is a job for good old fashioned government, one that regulates pollution, including greenhouse gases.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It is amazing that the 250th anniversary of America was pretty much just not a thing. You could tell all the companies thought it would be, they had 250th ketchup and ice cream and energy drinks but all we got was a shit ass fair that no one went to

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D @world-capitals.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

When that sweet sweet Henry v Brown payout hits 😌

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If Markwayne Mullin thinks we are in the business of educating people then "sending them home", he has no idea how the US economy works, or why it works.

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